XML: Help needed on extracting values

[ubuntu-user]

Hello

 

Yesterday I started learning PHPs XML support.

 

I have an XML file I need to update. I've read the file into a variable then run the simplexml_load_string function on it.

 

From there on, I simply extract values as follows:

$name = $xml->name;

 

That works for these:

<name>test</name>

 

However, I'm stuck on how to extract these attributes:

<type first='abc' second='xyz'>standard</type>

 

What I want is the value of "first" and the value of "second".

I can get the first value doing this:

$type_first = $xml->type->attributes();

 

However, I can't find a way of getting a specific value.

 

Does anyone know how to extract these? Also how to update them?

 

With this format:

<name>test</name>

 

I simply run this to change the value:

$xml->name = "New Name";

 

Thank you.

[mrMarcus]

this might ba of help: XML attributes in PHP

[ubuntu-user]

If anyone else wants to know this, I've worked it out.

 

To get the value of an attribute:

$vm_type_arch = $xml->type[first];

 

To update:

$xml->type[first] = "def";